In psychogeography, a dérive is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, on which the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding architecture and geography unconsciously direct the travelers, with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience. According to Situationist theorist Guy Debord, in performing a dérive, the individual in question must first set aside all work and leisure activities and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. The term is translated into English as drift.

Both living and creating in Los Angeles and sharing a background at La Sorbonne, Jimmy and Adi embrace the dérive of the Situationist International as a vehicle to explore the environmental effect of Los Angeles, a city whose economy essentially runs on creativity, despite its guise of plasticity and glamour.

The video drifts among the various neighborhoods of Los Angeles; from the current emptied living room of the Charles and Ray Eames home and studio, Cast Study House #8, in the Pacific Palisades to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House under construction in Griffith Park, the coast of Malibu, and the sidewalks of Echo Park. The video journeys through the collage of disparate architecture, foliage, activity and history. Through the use of Chroma key green paint, worlds collapse, juxtapositions intensify and resonate, and new interpretations materialize.

Using May 68 student protest photos as references in making the photographs, the duo replaced all aspects of the original images: the city of Paris is reduced to colored backdrops, the original students transform into artists/collaborators whom the two often work with, and the clothing with patterned fabrics. These interventions in the photographs further remove the historical grounding and symbolism, flattening the image space, and highlighting the emotion, intelligence and fervor of the current creative youth of Los Angeles.

Adi Goodrich is a production designer and art director. Jimmy Marble is a director and writer. Both currently live, work and consistently collaborate in Los Angeles, California.

Available Works

Elizabeth Atterbury

Elizabeth Atterbury (born 1982, West Palm Beach, FL) lives and works in Portland, Maine. Recent solo and group shows include Kate Werble Gallery, The Portland Museum of Art, Mrs, The Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, kijidome, Boston, Document, Chicago, TSA, Brooklyn, Bodega, Philadelphia/New York, KANSAS, New York, and The ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, among others. In the Middle, An Oasis, a monograph of her work, was published by Bodega Press in 2013.

She received her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from MassArt.

The Well, The Wall, 2016 Silver gelatin print 20 x 24 in

The Well, The Wall II, 2016 Silver gelatin print
20 x 24 in

Beach Woks (Marks of a Tool II), 2016 Silver gelatin print 20 x 24 in

Still Life with Popcorn and Pits, 2016 Silver gelatin print 11 x 14 in

MAÑANA VAPOR

Julien Creuzet

SKETCH GALLERY

On view: November 23rd, 2017 – February 15th, 2018

French Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet presents Mañana Vapor, his first solo show in Colombia at SKETCH. He composes an intuitive and fertile encounter, composed by poems, installations and visual and sound assemblages. Fragments of poems and photographs are superimposed and printed on to polished surfaces, feverishly wanting to escape from the video that contains them and whisper magic stories into your ears. From his collages he creates powerful visual narratives, erasing the borders between documentary, fantasy and reality; a reverse that lets us go beyond the thinkable, between the occult and the visible. Through his hybrid works Julien Creuzet recovers objects and myths that history has, to date, left aside to make its own agenda prevail. Then and only then Julien Creuzet stories reveal themselves as possible: they shine in silence waiting for our hands to embrace them.

DOCUMENT is a commercial gallery located in Chicago that specializes in contemporary photography, film and media based art. The gallery has organized more than 30 solo exhibitions since its opening in 2011 and actively promotes the work of emerging national and international artists. Operating conjointly as a professional printmaking studio, DOCUMENT facilitates the production of works by artists from Chicago and the US.
At this time we do not accept unsolicited submissions.